Sunday 9th September 2018 saw Wymondham town centre turn into a Vintage Day. At this event there were classic cars, vintage bus rides between Wymondham to Norwich City via Hethersett, live music and memory lane exhibitions. To get to this event I boarded the free shuttle bus to Wymondham, this was the ex City Sightseeing Norwich Volvo Olympian Northern Counties Palatin. Also parked beside was the current City Sightseeing Plaxton bodied Volvo, which are both owned by Awayadays.
Also at the event were Mid-Norfolk Railway who normally run train trips between Wymondham Abbey Station and Dereham, on Sunday the line was extended to the boundary of Network Rail. While waiting for the train at Wymondham Abbey Station, I was invited to looked around the Hunslet Austerity WD75008 SWIFTSURE locomotive.
While looking around the SWIFTSURE locomotive I was informed that the British Railways Class 4MT locomotive no.80078's last day in service on Mid-Norfolk Railway is September 12th 2018.
During the day different vintage buses was arriving and departing from Wymondham and Norwich. The vintage bus timetables were organised by the Eastern Transport Collection Society, who did a fantastic job. The buses included were the Ipswich Transport Museum, Eastern Counties (LFS125), Lowestoft Corporation 12 (PBJ2F), North Western Weymann bodied Leyland Tiger (KDB 696), Eastern Counties LFL57 (557BNG), Eastern Counties Leyland National East Lancs LG587 (WAH 587S), AEC Routemaster (SMK 737F), ex city sightseeing Norwich Volvo Olympian Northern Counties Palatin (G520 VBB) and EC Swift Great Yarmouth Corporation (WEX 685M).
More photographs from the day can be found on the Facebook Page
